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Citizenship and Nationality
- English(1) Any citizen of Singapore of or over the age of 21 years and of sound mind who is also or is about to become a citizen of another country may renounce his citizenship of Singapore by declaration registered by the Government, and shall upon such registration cease to be a citizen of Singapore.
(2) The Government may withhold the registration of a declaration under this Article —
(a) if the declaration is made during any war in which Singapore is engaged; or
(b) if the declaration is made by a person subject to the Enlistment Act (Cap. 93) unless he has —
(i) discharged his liability for full-time service under section 12 of that Act;
(ii) rendered at least 3 years of operationally ready national service under section 13 of that Act in lieu of such full-time service; or
(iii) complied with such conditions as may be determined by the Government.
(3) This Article applies to a woman under the age of 21 years who has been married as it applies to a person of or over that age. (Art. 128)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English…
5. Federal citizenship and naturalization; aliens.
… (Ninth Schedule, Legislative Lists, List I—Federal List, [Articles 74,77]) - Malay…
5. Kewarganegaraan Persekutuan dan penaturalisasian; orang asing.
... (Jadual Kesembilan, Senarai Perundangan, Senarai I—Senarai Persekutuan, [Perkara 74, 77])
Citizenship and Nationality
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6. Any notice to be given by the Minister to any person under Article 133(1) may be sent to that person at his last known address or, in the case of a person under the age of 18 years (not being a married woman) to his parent or guardian at the last known address of the parent or guardian; and if an address at which the notice may be sent to any person under this paragraph is not known and cannot after reasonable inquiry be ascertained, the notice may be given by publication in the Gazette.
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15. (1) For the purposes of Part X, references to a person’s father or to his parent or to one of his parents shall, in relation to a person who is illegitimate, be construed as references to his mother.
… (Third Schedule)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English…
4. Nationality, citizenship and naturalisation.
… (Fourth Schedule, Federal Legislative List, Part I) - Urdu…
(۴) قومیت، شہریت اور عطائے حقوق شہریت۔
…(جدول چہارم، وفاقی قانون کی فہرست، حصہ اول)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English(1) Subject to the provisions of this Part, the following persons are citizens by operation of law, that is to say:
(a) every person born before Malaysia Day who is a citizen of the Federation by virtue of the provisions contained in Part I of the Second Schedule; 3and
(b) every person born on or after Malaysia Day, and having any of the qualifications specified in Part II of the Second Schedule. (Art. 14) - Malay(1) Tertakluk kepada peruntukan Bahagian ini, orang yang berikut ialah warganegara melalui kuat kuasa undang-undang, iaitu:
(a) tiap-tiap orang yang lahir sebelum Hari Malaysia yang menjadi warganegara Persekutuan menurut kuasa peruntukan yang terkandung dalam Bahagian I Jadual Kedua; dan
(b) tiap-tiap orang yang lahir pada atau selepas Hari Malaysia dan mempunyai mana-mana kelayakan yang dinyatakan dalam Bahagian II Jadual Kedua. (Perkara 14)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English
(1) No citizen of Nepal may be deprived of the right to obtain citizenship.
(2) Provision of single federal citizenship with provincial identity has been made in Nepal. (Art. 10) - Nepali
(१) कुनै पनि नेपाली नागरिकलाई नागरिकता प्राप्त गर्ने हकबाट वञ्चित गरिने छैन ।
(२) नेपालमा प्रादेशिक पहिचान सहितको एकल संघीय नागरिकताको व्यवस्था गरिएको छ । (धारा १०)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English(1) Citizens shall consist of indigenous Indonesian peoples and persons of foreign origin who have been legalised as citizens in accordance with law.
(2) Residents shall consist of Indonesian citizens and foreign nationals living in Indonesia.
(3) Matters concerning citizens and residents shall be regulated by law. (Art. 26) - Indonesian(1) Yang menjadi warga negara ialah orang-orang bangsa Indonesia asli dan orang-orang bangsa lain yang disahkan dengan undang-undang sebagai warga negara.
(2) Penduduk ialah warga negara Indonesia dan orang asing yang bertempat tinggal di Indonesia.
(3) Hal-hal mengenai warga negara dan penduduk diatur dengan undang-undang. (Pasal 26)
Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishThe requirements for becoming a citizen of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea are defined by the Law on Nationality.
… (Art. 62) - Korean조선민주주의인민공화국 공민이 되는 조건은 국적에 관한 법으로 규정한다.
… (제62조)
Citizenship and Nationality
- EnglishEveryone bound to the Turkish State through the bond of citizenship is a Turk.
The child of a Turkish father or a Turkish mother is a Turk.
Citizenship can be acquired under the conditions stipulated by law, and shall be forfeited only in cases determined by law.
No Turk shall be deprived of citizenship, unless he/she commits an act incompatible with loyalty to the motherland.
Recourse to the courts in appeal against the decisions and proceedings related to the deprivation of citizenship shall not be denied. (Art. 66) - TurkishTürk Devletine vatandaşlık bağı ile bağlı olan herkes Türktür.
Türk babanın veya Türk ananın çocuğu Türktür.
Vatandaşlık, kanunun gösterdiği şartlarla kazanılır ve ancak kanunda belirtilen hallerde kaybedilir.
Hiçbir Türk, vatana bağlılıkla bağdaşmayan bir eylemde bulunmadıkça vatandaşlıktan çıkarılamaz.
Vatandaşlıktan çıkarma ile ilgili karar ve işlemlere karşı yargı yolu kapatılamaz. (Madde 66)
Citizenship and Nationality
- English
1. A person, both of whose parents are citizens of Bhutan, shall be a natural born citizen of Bhutan.
2. A person, domiciled in Bhutan on or before the Thirty-First of December Nineteen Hundred and Fifty Eight and whose name is registered in the official record of the Government of Bhutan shall be a citizen of Bhutan by registration.
3. A person who applies for citizenship by naturalization shall:
a. Have lawfully resided in Bhutan for at least fifteen years;
b. Not have any record of imprisonment for criminal offences within the country or outside;
c. Be able to speak and write Dzongkha;
d. Have a good knowledge of the culture, customs, traditions and history of Bhutan;
e. Have no record of having spoken or acted against the Tsawa-sum;
f. Renounce the citizenship, if any, of a foreign State on being conferred Bhutanese citizenship; and
g. Take a solemn Oath of Allegiance to the Constitution as may be prescribed.
4. The grant of citizenship by naturalization shall take effect by a Royal Kasho of the Druk Gyalpo.
5. If any citizen of Bhutan acquires the citizenship of a foreign State, his or her citizenship of Bhutan shall be terminated.
6. Subject to the provisions of this Article and the Citizenship Acts, Parliament shall, by law, regulate all other matters relating to citizenship. (Art. 6) - Dzongkha
༡) ཕ་མ་གཉིས་ཆ་ར་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཨིན་པའི་མི་འདི་ རང་བཞིན་སྐྱེས་ལུང་ལས་བརྟེན་པའི་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཨིན།
༢) སྤྱི་ལོ་གཅིག་སྟོང་དགུ་བརྒྱ་ ལྔ་བཅུ་ང་བརྒྱད་ ཟླ་བཅུ་གཉིས་པའི་ཚེས་སུམ་ཅུ་སོ་གཅིག་གི་ཉིན་མར་ ཡང་ན་ དེའི་ཧེ་མ་ འབྲུག་ནང་ གཞིས་གནས་བཅགས་ཏེ་སྡོད་མི་ཨིན་པའི་ཁར་ འབྲུག་གཞུང་གི་གཞུང་འབྲེལ་འཛིན་ཐོའི་ནང་ མིང་ཐོ་བཀོད་ གྲུབ་པའི་མི་ངོ་འདི་ ཐོ་བཀོད་ལས་བརྟེན་པའི་འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ཨིན།
༣) རང་སྦྱོར་ལས་བརྟེན་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་དོན་ལུ་ཞུ་ཡིག་ཕུལ་བའི་མི་ངོ་གིས་འགྲུབ་དགོཔ་འདི་ཡང་།
ཀ༽ འབྲུག་ནང་འཁོད་ ཉུང་ཤོས་ལོ་ངོ་བཅོ་ལྔ་དེ་ཅིག་ཁྲིམས་མཐུན་གྱི་སྒོ་ལས་སྡོད་ཡོདཔ་དང་།
ཁ༽ རྒྱལ་ཁབ་ཕྱི་ནང་ག་ཏེ་ཨིན་རུང་ ཉེས་ཅན་གྱི་གནོད་འགེལ་ཅིག་ལུ་བརྟེན་ བཙོན་ཁྲིམས་ཀྱི་འཛིན་ཐོ་གང་ཡང་མེད་པ།
ག༽ རྫོང་ཁ་སླབ་ནི་དང་འབྲི་ཚུགས་པ།
ང་༽ འབྲུག་གི་ལམ་སྲོལ་དང་ ལུགས་སྲོལ་ སྔར་སྲོལ་ རྒྱལ་རབས་ཀྱི་ཤེས་བྱ་ལེགས་ཤོམ་ཡོད་པ།
ཅ༽ རྩ་བ་གསུམ་གྱི་རྒྱབ་འགལ་ལུ་གཏམ་གླེང་བ་ ཡང་ན་ བྱ་སྤྱོད་སྒྲིག་པའི་འཛིན་ཐོ་ མེད་པ།
ཆ༽ འབྲུག་གི་མི་ཁུངས་གནངམ་ད་ ཕྱིའི་རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་གི་མི་ཁུངས་རེ་ཡོད་རུང་ སྤངས་ཏེ་བཞག་པ།
ཇ༽ རྩ་ཁྲིམས་ཆེན་མོ་ལུ་ དད་དམ་གཙང་མའི་དམ་བཅའ་ཆེད་དུ་བཀོད་པ་ལྟར་དུ་ཕུལ་བ།
༤) རང་སྦྱོར་ལས་བརྟེན་པའི་མི་ཁུངས་འཐོབ་ནི་འདི་ འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་མཆོག་གིས་བཀའ་ཤོག་ཅིག་གནང་ཞིནམ་ལས་ ཆ་གནས་གྲུབ་ཨིན།
༥) གལ་སྲིད་ འབྲུག་པའི་མི་སེར་ག་ར་ཨིན་རུང་ ཕྱིའི་རྒྱལ་ཁམས་ཅིག་གི་མི་ཁུངས་ལེན་པ་ཡོད་ཚེ་ ཁོའམ་མོ་རའི་ འབྲུག་གི་ མི་ཁུངས་ཆ་མེད་གཏང་དགོ།
༦) རྩ་ཚན་འདིའི་དགོངས་དོན་ཚུ་དང་ མི་ཁུངས་འདོགས་ལུགས་ཀྱི་བཅའ་ཁྲིམས་ཚུ་ལས་མ་འགལ་བར་ མི་ཁུངས་དང་འབྲེལ་བའི་གནད་དོན་ཆ་མཉམ་ སྤྱི་ཚོགས་ཀྱིས་ཁྲིམས་ཐོག་ མཚམས་འཛིན་འབད་དགོ། ༼རྩ་ཚན་༦༽